After our interesting but exhausting day yesterday to the Titanic Quarter, we continued today with an even longer tour towards Cave Hill Country Park to climb the mountain there. Cavehill is a rocky hill overlooking the city of Belfast with a height of 1,207 ft. It is marked by basalt cliffs and caves, and its distinguishing feature is 'Napoleon's Nose', a tall cliff which resembles the profile of the emperor Napoleon.
We took a bus from our accommodation to the vicinity of the mountain valley to look for some geocaches on the way up. Reaching the top of the mountain turned out to be more difficult than expected because the landscape was very rocky and uneven. Shortly before we reached the top, we discovered a cave where the boys from our group climbed in. At the top we enjoyed the breathtaking view of Belfast, the Celtic Sea and the surrounding area. We had a short rest and took a lot of photos. After a snack we started the way back, but this time on an official hiking trail that was easier to walk on. The whole tour took a lot of energy because we were on the road for about 6-7 hours and we were all happy when we arrived home.
We rewarded ourselves with a delicious evening meal and ended the day watching a film together.
I started the working week in our repair shop, where there were still a few jobs to do from last week. I repaired broken computers and laptops and installed software on them according to customer wishes. In addition, there were several orders from the walk-in customers.
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| Stuff to do on bench |
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| Running diagnostic tool |
On Tuesday, a customer came into the shop who had forgotten her Windows 10 password and asked for help. I was questioned by my colleagues as to whether I was familiar with such a topic and would take care of it. I answered in the positive and tried out various methods that I had mastered. In the end, I took the tool Kon-Boot, by Piotr Bania, which was specially made for such purposes and reset the Windows password.
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| The Kon-Boot |
The rest of the day I was allowed to watch my boss repairing a Playstation 5 motherboard by soldering. As I had not had much contact with soldering, I found this very instructive and took lots of notes and learned many new things.
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| Broken board before... |
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| ...and repaired |
Wednesday I got to work for the other company my boss runs, "KERO Business Solutions", which offers the following: Managed IT Services, Virtualisation, Hosted Exchange, Network Infrastructure and Cloud Backups and much more in the IT field. We use a ticket system to organise the customer orders and inventory, for this I had to program a filter which makes it possible to search for specific data according to certain criteria such as company name or product category. I had to spend a long time learning the already written code and spent the rest of the week programming the filter.
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| PHP programming |
Friday is always "Fat-Friday" in our office, which means that we order food outside and eat together. As the name suggests, it's often something very fatty. For me, it was a large portion of chips, a sausage, breaded chicken with onion rings and an energy drink. In general, the food here in the country is often greasier than in Germany and I no longer need to wear a belt, where before I still needed one.
As I had a very exhausting and packed week, both mentally and physically, I decided to spend a very quiet day in the accommodation on Saturday. I wrote my blog and education reports outside in the backyard and let the sun shine on my belly.
The others from my group went to Bangor to do some hiking and swimming. Here are a few pictures from their trip:
See you next time, your Bent :)
I can well imagine that your hiking tour was exhausting. I didn't even realize that the Belfast area is so mountainous.
ReplyDeleteWhen describing your work, I think it's great that you can do so many different things.
Have a good week.